The Resource The Quintland Sisters
The Quintland Sisters
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The item The Quintland Sisters represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The Quintland Sisters represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "A historical novel that will enthrall you... I was utterly captivated..." — Joanna Goodman, author of The Home for Unwanted Girls For fans of Sold on a Monday or The Home for Unwanted Girls, Shelley Wood's novel tells the story of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first identical quintuplets to survive birth, told from the perspective of a midwife in training who helps bring them into the world. Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical “Quints” playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism and advertising dollars pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Marie, and Émilie. With her quirky eye for detail, Emma records every strange twist of events in her private journals
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780062839114
- Label
- The Quintland Sisters
- Title
- The Quintland Sisters
- Statement of responsibility
- Shelley Wood
- Subject
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- trueNurses
- trueFrench Canadians
- trueDionne quintuplets
- truePoliticians
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueDepression era (1929-1941) -- 1929 -- 1941
- trueTourists
- trueExploitation
- trueFame
- truePremature infants
- trueMidwives
- trueParents' rights
- trueQuintuplets
- trueOntario
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueChild custody
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueCanada
- trueRural life
- trueBiographical Fiction
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- trueFamily Sagas
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A historical novel that will enthrall you... I was utterly captivated..." — Joanna Goodman, author of The Home for Unwanted Girls For fans of Sold on a Monday or The Home for Unwanted Girls, Shelley Wood's novel tells the story of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first identical quintuplets to survive birth, told from the perspective of a midwife in training who helps bring them into the world. Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical “Quints” playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism and advertising dollars pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Marie, and Émilie. With her quirky eye for detail, Emma records every strange twist of events in her private journals
- Summary
- Attending the birth of the Dionne quintuplets in 1934 Ontario, a teen midwife witnesses an explosive custody dispute between the government and family members involving the quintuplets' exploitation as curiosities
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10761390
- Cataloging source
- BT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wood, Shelley
- Dewey number
- 813
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Biographical Fiction
- Family Sagas
- Historical Fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Quintland Sisters
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:HUS_593477
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780062839114
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Quintland Sisters
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:HUS_593477
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780062839114
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBiographical Fiction
- trueCanada
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueChild custody
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueDepression era (1929-1941) -- 1929 -- 1941
- trueDionne quintuplets
- trueExploitation
- trueFame
- trueFamily Sagas
- trueFrench Canadians
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueMidwives
- trueNurses
- trueOntario
- trueParents' rights
- truePoliticians
- truePremature infants
- trueQuintuplets
- trueRural life
- trueTourists
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueCanadian fiction
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueHistorical fiction
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